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Re: Compiling dpkg
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:01:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: Compiling dpkg
- References: <02f801c6dd1c$05f5b790$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <4511F130.AA2FDB8F@dessent.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:56:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is
>>another question. Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin
>>packages aren't issued in debian format...
>
>Sigh.
>
>He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something
>useful under Cygwin even though it's been pointed out to him numerous
>times that it cannot possibly.
>
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00492.html
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00499.html
>
>So, can we please remove dpkg now from the distro?
Yep. Done. I've completely removed it.
Now who wants to tell him? :-)
cgf